Venom #200

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Comments

[bmaryott]

Someone REALLY wanted to do Spawn!

[silverhammerman]

At this point I kind of wish McFarlane would just throw him six issues of Spawn to do so that Cates could just get it out of his system.

It's still funny that for all of his bad boy styling, Cates doesn't seem to dream of being the new Todd McFarlane as he does working for the real Todd McFarlane.

[dan_ingram]

How so?

...I've not followed Spawn in decades

[bmaryott]

The only thing missing from making that cover a Spawn image is a little bit of red.

[dan_ingram]

Eh, 'anti-hero/hero' on throne is common enough. Even Kong got in on the act!

[silverhammerman]

Nice art, and with this setup suddenly the Al Ewing/Ram V/Bryan Hitch creative team for the next Venom series makes a lot more sense.

[deh_tommy]

I’m simultaneously looking forward to and dreading Cates’ run on Hulk. Looking forward because his horror stuff presses all my buttons and I like how metal he can get, but dread because he can’t seem to help himself with killing off characters.

[silverhammerman]

Leaving aside my urge to dunk on Cates, I'm not keen on his taking over Hulk. He'd have been a natural fit for the character... four years ago, before Ewing redefined what the Hulk could do as a series and a character. Keep in mind that Cates opened his Thor series by having Thor get his eye and his arm back in the first issue, thus erasing the visual legacy of Aaron's run, and he's now got Odin making his way back into the story.

Following the Ewing series would be an unenviable task for anyone, but with Cates in particular I worry that he's been brought on to reset the character to factory standards.

[cyberghostface]

“Keep in mind that Cates opened his Thor series by having Thor get his eye and his arm back in the first issue, thus erasing the visual legacy of Aaron's run”

New writers almost always try to reset the status quo when they come on board. I’m willing to bet Ewing will undo Old Man Eddie here if not the entire symbiote god concept within his first arc or two.

[silverhammerman]

Very true, but immediately having Thor get a new eye and arm struck me as particularly egregious. Usually they at least pretend that the previous run mattered, otherwise the patented Marvel illusion of change becomes too obvious.

[scorntx]

... just checking, but are you serious about Ewing doing Venom or making sarcastic?

[aperturedreams]

It was already announced, He's doing it with Ram V.

[scorntx]

Ooohh... torn between my fondness for Ewing and my apathy for Venom.

[deh_tommy]

Al Ewing could write a book about someone from Damage Control fixing toilets and he’d somehow find a way to make that compelling and thoughtful.

[dan_ingram]

WAs Eddie announced as the main character? Because Flash is back

[zachbeacon]

Kinda hoping for Flash. I just can't bring myself to care about Eddie.

[cyberghostface]

It’s Eddie.

[aperturedreams]

Judging by the cover art the main character is neither of them, not sure if I should spoil

[deh_tommy]

Al Ewing and Donny Cates are swapping books. The latter’s going to do the Hulk and the former’s taking over for Venom.

[bravest_spinja]

Hmm, I'm a little nervous about that. I think last time two writers who had a key party, and one of them being the Hulk, was John Byrne and Bill Mantlo, (It's probably happened since, though those two were doing definitive runs). Granted, Incredible Hulk quickly recovered, and how, but Bill Mantlo's Alpha Flight run I think irreparably hurt the property.

[thanekos]

You know Donny Cates has OldManVenom.docx on his hard drive right now.

[tcampbell1000]

So am I missing something, or does this look so unsustainable it makes modern environmental policy look sane and reasonable? Because if he looks like that after what I'm assuming is no more than a month, that body's got another week left in it, tops.

[leahandillyana]

This fallic metaphor is about as subtle as a pneumatic hammer.

[stubbleupdate]

How did King in Black end?

[lbd_nytetrayn]

I was just wondering that, myself. Did we skip ahead here?

[cyberghostface]

https://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/9190142.html

[lbd_nytetrayn]

Ah, thanks! Didn't realize that was it.

[deh_tommy]

Flash and Carnage escaped to the land of the living. Eddie manages to defeat Knull once and for all and ascends as the next King in Black, god of all symbiotes, free from Knull’s malicious influence.

[walkingthroughforest]

The real Venom was the friends we made along the way.